amount we raised the debt ceiling. you get to spend that money now, and it was spent in 18 months. we already hit the debt ceiling again. we would raise this debt ceiling $2.1 trillion, and an agreement was reached to reduce spending over the next ten years by $2.1 trillion. so that was then. the president signed that. the democratic leader in the senate agreed to that. the speaker of the house, the republican, agreed to that. that became the law. well, we were on path at that time -- and these are numbers that we live with every day. i'm the ranking republican on the budget committee, and it's just a constant item in our face out there. we were then spending $3.7 trillion a year. if you extend that for ten years, you would spend $37 trillion over ten years. but the budget was expected to grow. it was expected to grow to $47 trillion. so at the end of that time, we would have increased spending by $10 trillion almost. this deal would have said that we wouldn't spend $47 trillion but $45 trillion, thereby reducing the i